Item 01: Portrait of two children, possibly Maybanke and Harry Selfe, ca. 1854 / possibly by Arthur Brown

MIN 311

item

ca. 1854

Graphic Materials, Photographs

832521

Copy print : MIN 311
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 photograph - 10.4 x 7.7 cm, in case 12 x 9.5 cm - handcoloured ambrotype in brown imitation leather covered case, with embossed floral motif. Lid is missing

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Maybanke Anderson, nee Selfe in her recollections 'My sprig of rosemary' which were presented to the Library with the ambrotype, states that Arthur Brown took photographs on glass of herself and her brother Harry in Kingston, England and that several of these photos came to Australia. Born in 1845, Maybanke would have been approximately seven years old when the first ambrotypes were being produced in England. The Selfe family arrived in Australia in January 1855.

Untitled

Keyword subjects:
Selfe, Harry

Unsigned

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